Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> That should not be so.  There should be clear standards for
> mirrors to be listed in that file, and when we learn that mirrors
> don't meet them, we should remove them from the file.

I created a script a while ago which checks mirror sites and produces
a report suitable for emailing.  I sent a note to the www list but it
received a lukewarm response and I got distracted with something else.

It only checks web mirrors for now but I might expand it if it were
being used regularly.

You can check it out at http://www.netbsd.org/~mike/mirrorcheck/index.html.

Mike.